Reacting to Apple at CES 2012, part three: Sony, Motorola, RIM, Nokia

At RIM's BlackBerry booth, the company was showing off the products it failed to sell in 2011, including the 7 inch PlayBook, which co-CEO Mike Lazaridis described before it went on sale as being "the perfect size" before also noting that RIM planned to make other sizes as well.

Just months before that, Steve Jobs had predicted that 7 inch tablets would fail, saying, "we think the 7 inch tablets will be dead on arrival, and manufacturers will realize they're too small and abandon them next year. They'll then increase the size, abandoning the customers and developers who bought into the smaller format."

RIM did have its biggest innovation on display however: a BlackBerry version of the App Store capable of charging $4.99 for "Cut The Rope," a fun but simple game that is $0.99 for iOS devices. This is the same game Microsoft oddly chose to demonstrate as being playable on a no-compromise, full power Windows 8 machine.

And then there was Polaroid, a company with a booth primarily devoted to creating paper only, non-digital photographs that look like they were taken in the 1970s. Sadly, there's now an app for that, and Polaroid doesn't even make it; the company just licenses its name for it.

On page 4 of 4: The hall of Apple litigants: Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Kodak

The Audi R8 from Monster that AI has somehow determined to be "polished aluminum", is far... ridiculously far, from being accurate.

That Audi was featured as a project build by West Coast Customs. It was a theme-based car that was their own personal interpretation concept for the movie TRON. The polished aluminum is in fact a special paint using silver particles. Has nothing to do with polishing bare metal. Come-on AI.

You guys SHOULD be reporting on Intel's new Medfield chip... That's one of the biggest stories if you ask me. That and the new wifi standard 802.11ac.

1.3 Gbps download speeds ?!?! Freaking insane...

Medfield has nothing to do with Apple. It's a x86 Atom paired with a weak GPU, and still eats up more power than today's A5. Apple will blow it out of the water with its next generation ARM SoC.

02.11ac, while interesting in its potential, is several months from being finished. But remember when DED detailed 802.11n as the enabling technology behind Apple TV in late 2006, and everyone pissed themselves because they demanded to know why a "non ratified" standard was being cited as news and that it wouldn't be finished until years into the future? And then Apple delivered it within a couple months.

Successive versions of Windows Phone plan to add support for NFC hardware (along with features such as front facing cameras), and Nokia is hoping to add increasing amounts of its own differentiating feature to its Windows Phone models.

I know it doesn't matter as no one is reading these articles for accurate information at this point, but FFC was in 7.5, which is a few months old now.

I know it doesn't matter as no one is reading these articles for accurate information at this point, but FFC was in 7.5, which is a few months old now.

Pay attention Dillger, or you'll continue to get this stuff wrong.

You are correct, and might I add NFC has been added in Mango update as well (although currently not used by any hardware vendor, but as the statement suggest Mango is lacking support, this is 100% false)